Timeshift (2002)
- Genre: Documentary
- First Air Date: 2002-10-10
- Last Air Date: 2017-04-20
- Total Seasons: 17
- Total Episodes: 184
- Status: Returning Series
- Episode Runtime: 60 min.
- Production Country: United Kingdom
- Networks: BBC Four
Documentary series which ranges widely over Britain's social and cultural history, its narrative-led storytelling offering a richly immersive and varied window onto the past.
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| Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | Episode 1 | The Grunwick Strike | 2002-10-05 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 2 | The Cannabis Years | 2002-10-12 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 3 | The Writer's Trade | 2002-10-19 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 4 | The Sailing Sixties | 2002-11-09 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 5 | Attenborough: The Controller Years | 2002-11-16 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 6 | The Rise and Fall of the Comedy Straight Man | 2002-11-30 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 7 | A Shadow Over Europe | 2002-12-03 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 8 | Whatever Happened to the Working Class? | 2003-01-11 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 9 | Notting Hill Riots | 2003-01-18 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 10 | What Have the Germans Done for Us? | 2003-02-16 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 11 | Greenham Common Changed My Life | 2003-02-23 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 12 | Car Crazy | 2003-03-02 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 13 | The Magic Roundabout Story | 2003-03-16 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 14 | Malcolm Muggeridge: Swimming Against the Stream | 2003-03-24 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 15 | Gurus | 2003-03-30 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 1 | The British Seaside | 2003-05-05 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 2 | Children's News | 2003-05-15 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 3 | Watching You | 2003-12-01 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 4 | TV and Charity | 2003-06-05 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 5 | Tyneside | 2003-06-12 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 6 | Political Thrillers: Plays of State | 2003-06-15 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 7 | High Rise Dreams | 2003-06-19 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 8 | Vicars: Dearly Beloved? | 2003-07-03 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 9 | Footballers' Lives | 2003-09-21 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 10 | Six Days to Saturday | 2003-09-21 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 11 | The Kneale Tapes | 2003-10-15 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 12 | Hard Drive Heaven | 2004-02-09 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 1 | Cold War Kids | 2003-10-01 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 2 | The Kneale Tapes | 2003-10-15 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 3 | James Cameron: A Pain in the Neck | 2003-10-22 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 4 | Apocalypse Now… and Then | 2003-10-29 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 5 | The Lie of the Land | 2003-11-05 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 6 | Child Prodigies | 2003-11-19 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 7 | Raj to Rhondda: How Indian Doctors Saved the NHS | 2003-11-26 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 8 | The Jet Set | 2003-12-17 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 9 | Missing Believed Wiped | 2003-12-29 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 10 | Prog Rock | 2004-01-19 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 11 | Hard Drive Heaven: The History of the Home Computer | 2004-02-09 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 12 | Whistleblowers | 2004-03-02 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 13 | Charles Wheeler: Edge of Frame | 2004-03-04 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 1 | Art School | 2004-06-19 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 2 | Fantasy Sixties | 2004-06-26 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 3 | Rosenthal | 2004-07-18 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 4 | The Carnival Years | 2004-08-28 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 5 | Time Gentlemen, Please: History of the British Pub | 2004-10-07 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 6 | Live on the Night | 2004-10-14 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 7 | New Age Travellers | 2004-10-21 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 8 | Drugs in Sport | 2004-10-28 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 9 | Hey Mr. DJ: The Rise and Rise of the Disc Jockey | 2004-11-04 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 10 | British Space Race | 2004-11-16 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 11 | Pile It High, Sell It Cheap | 2005-01-20 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 12 | Red Robbo | 2005-02-02 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 13 | Gambling Britain | 2005-02-03 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 14 | The Story of Circus | 2005-02-10 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 15 | Pop Svengalis | 2005-02-22 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 16 | Conchies: Questions of Conscience | 2005-03-01 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 17 | Kenneth Tynan | 2005-03-02 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 18 | Jewish Entertainers | 2005-03-15 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 19 | Alan Plater: Hearing the Music | 2005-03-26 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 20 | Speak No Evil: The Story of the Broadcast Ban | 2005-04-04 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 21 | Russel T. Davis: Unscripted | 2005-04-11 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 1 | MP's on the Box | 2005-05-19 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 2 | Je T'Aime… How We Learned to Love Europe | 2005-05-31 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 3 | England Away | 2005-05-31 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 4 | Court on Camera | 2005-07-16 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 5 | Apes in Hollywood | 2005-07-17 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 6 | Star Men | 2005-08-06 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 7 | Black and White Minstrels Revisited | 2005-08-08 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 8 | Too Much, Too Young | 2005-09-09 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 9 | The Jitterbug Years | 2005-10-01 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 10 | Play It Again | 2005-10-04 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 11 | The Battle for the Ashes | 2005-10-20 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 12 | The Lost Pictures of Eugene Smith | 2005-10-25 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 13 | The Third Progamme: High Culture for All in Postwar Britain | 2005-10-25 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 14 | Lost Road: Overland to Singapore | 2005-10-30 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 15 | A Study in Sherlock | 2005-12-24 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 16 | Baker Street Babylon: The Bizarre Afterlife of Sherlock Holmes | 2005-12-26 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 17 | Stephen Poliakoff: A Brief History of Now | 2006-01-15 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 18 | The British Way of Death | 2006-02-06 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 19 | Left of Frame: The Rise and Fall of Radical TV Drama | 2006-02-08 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 20 | Rude Britannia | 2006-02-13 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 21 | The Sun and the Moon | 2006-03-06 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 22 | Pay Attention Britain! Public Information Films | 2006-03-30 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 23 | Pop Svengalis | 2005-02-23 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 1 | Switch Off Something | 2006-04-01 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 2 | Creating Life on Mars | 2006-04-02 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 3 | The Da Vinci Code: The Greatest Story Ever Sold | 2006-05-01 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 4 | Carry On Campus | 2006-05-10 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 5 | Machine Men | 2006-05-13 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 6 | Oz and Them | 2006-08-01 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 7 | Spy Stories: British Espionage in Fact and Fiction | 2006-08-29 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 8 | Planet Ping Pong | 2006-09-11 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 9 | Parallel Worlds: A User's Guide | 2006-11-28 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 10 | Transylvania Babylon | 2006-12-28 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 11 | The New Middle Classes | 2007-03-04 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 12 | Rover: The Long Goodbye | 2007-03-20 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 13 | First Rites: From the Cradle to the Prom | 2007-03-24 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 14 | Wedding Rites: In Sickness and in Health | 2007-03-25 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 15 | Goodbye Children Everywhere | 2007-05-26 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 18 | The British Space Race | 2006-05-22 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 1 | The Edwardian Larder | 2007-04-18 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 2 | How to Be a Good Prime Minister | 2007-09-22 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 3 | Gagging for It: TV's Hunger for Radio Comedy | 2007-10-01 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 4 | Whatever Happened to Radio 2? | 2007-10-05 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 5 | Emmylou Harris's Ten Commandments of Country | 2007-10-12 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 6 | Emmylou Harris at the BBC | 2007-10-12 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 7 | Archaeology: Digging the Past | 2007-10-21 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 8 | Sir Mortimer Wheeler: A Life in Ruins | 2007-10-21 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 9 | Watching the Russians | 2007-11-21 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 10 | Never Had It So Good? | 2007-12-10 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 11 | A Game of Two Eras: 1957 v 2007 | 2007-12-13 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 12 | Stuffed: The Great British Christmas Dinner | 2007-12-23 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 13 | The Rise and Fall of the Ad Man | 2008-03-09 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 14 | Time Gentlemen, Please: History of the British Pub | 2007-06-09 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 1 | How to Be a Good President | 2008-09-14 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 2 | Between the Lines: Railways in Fiction and Film | 2008-10-09 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 3 | The Last Days of Steam | 2008-10-16 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 4 | How to Write a Mills and Boon | 2008-11-02 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 5 | How to Solve a Cryptic Crossword | 2008-11-10 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 6 | The Comic Songbook | 2008-12-22 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 7 | Fashion Versus the BBC | 2009-01-22 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 8 | The North-South Divide | 2009-04-09 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 1 | Farm to Pharma: The Rise and Rise of Food Science | 2009-04-30 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 2 | The Golden Age of Liners | 2009-10-22 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 3 | The Men Who Built the Liners | 2009-10-29 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 4 | The Last Days of the Liners | 2009-11-03 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 5 | How to Win at Chess | 2009-12-21 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 6 | Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films | 2009-12-22 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 7 | Clement Freud: In His Own Words | 2009-12-22 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 8 | Bread: A Loaf Affair | 2010-03-24 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 9 | Disappearing Dad | 2010-06-29 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 1 | The North on a Plate | 2010-09-08 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 2 | 1960: The Year of the North | 2010-09-14 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 3 | When Britain Went Wild | 2010-10-05 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 4 | Nordic Noir: The Story of Scandinavian Crime Fiction | 2010-12-20 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 5 | Italian Noir: The Story of Italian Crime Fiction | 2010-12-27 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 6 | The Golden Age of Coach Travel | 2011-01-05 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 7 | The Modern Age of the Coach | 2011-01-12 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 8 | The Story of Corporal Punishment | 2011-04-04 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 9 | The Story of Capital Punishment | 2011-04-05 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 1 | Retrial by TV: The Rise and Fall of Rough Justice | 2011-04-03 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 2 | Hotel Deluxe | 2011-06-29 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 3 | All the Fun of the Fair | 2011-08-02 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 4 | When the Circus Comes to Town | 2011-09-08 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 5 | The Picture Postcard World of Nigel Walmsley | 2011-09-15 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 6 | Dear Censor | 2011-09-29 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 7 | Antarctica: Of Ice and Men | 2011-11-03 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 8 | The Golden Age of Trams: A Streetcar Named Desire | 2011-12-05 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 9 | Epic: A Cast of Thousands! | 2011-12-24 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 10 | The Smoking Years | 2012-01-04 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 11 | The Rules of Drinking | 2012-01-11 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 1 | Health Before the NHS: The Road to Recovery | 2012-09-24 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 2 | Health Before the NHS: A Medical Revolution | 2012-10-01 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 3 | Magnificent Machines - The Golden Age of the British Sports Car | 2012-10-08 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 4 | Klezmer | 2012-10-14 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 5 | The British Army of the Rhine | 2012-10-22 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 6 | When Wrestling Was Golden: Grapples, Grunts and Grannies | 2012-12-13 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 7 | The Joy of (Train) Sets - The Model Railway Story | 2013-01-23 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 8 | Eyes Down! The Story of Bingo | 2013-01-30 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 9 | Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: The Rise of Martial Arts in Britain | 2013-02-24 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 10 | How to Be a Lady: An Elegant History | 2013-03-26 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 1 | Full Throttle: The Glory Days of British Motorbikes | 2013-10-28 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 2 | When Coal Was King | 2013-11-04 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 3 | Bouffants, Beehives and Bobs: The Hairstyles That Shaped Britain | 2013-11-13 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 4 | A Day at the Zoo | 2013-11-20 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 5 | The Ladybird Books Story: The Bugs That Got Britain Reading | 2013-12-22 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 6 | Hurricanes and Heatwaves: The Highs and Lows of British Weather | 2014-01-08 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 7 | How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective | 2014-01-12 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 1 | Mods, Rockers and Bank Holiday Mayhem | 2014-05-26 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 2 | Killer Storms and Cruel Winters - The History of Extreme Weather | 2014-07-28 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 3 | Bullseyes and Beer: When Darts Hit Britain | 2014-12-15 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 4 | Battle for the Himalayas: The Fight to Film Everest | 2015-01-26 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 5 | The Nation's Railway: The Golden Age of British Rail | 2015-02-24 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 6 | Spicing Up Britain: How Eating Out Went Exotic | 2015-03-11 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 1 | The Trains That Time Forgot: Britain's Lost Railway Journeys | 2015-09-02 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 2 | A Very British Map: The Ordnance Survey Story | 2015-09-09 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 3 | The Engine That Powers the World | 2015-09-23 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 4 | The People's Liners: Britain's Lost Pleasure Fleets | 2015-10-20 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 5 | Looking for Mr. Bond: 007 at the BBC | 2015-10-28 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 6 | How Britain Won the Space Race: The Story of Bernard Lovell and Jodrell Bank | 2015-11-16 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 1 | Bridging the Gap: How the Severn Bridge Was Built | 2016-10-19 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 2 | Sailors, Ships & Stevedores: The Story of British Docks | 2016-10-26 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 3 | Penny Blacks and Twopenny Blues: How Britain Got Stuck on Stamps | 2016-11-14 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 4 | Booze, Beans & Bhajis: The Story of the Corner Shop | 2016-12-19 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 5 | Flights of Fancy: Pigeons and the British | 2017-02-07 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 1 | Roof Racks and Hatchbacks: The Family Car | 2017-04-03 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 2 | Blazes and Brigades: The Story of the Fire Service | 2017-04-13 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 3 | Dial "B" for Britain: The Story of the Landline | 2017-04-20 | 60 min |
